Overview
“Lean” is a management philosophy based on the Toyota Production System (TPS). With Lean Thinking, you will be able to enhance value for your customers by improving process efficiency and eliminating waste. By eliminating waste and inflexibility from entire value streams, organizations will be able to create processes that require less resources – less time, less human effort, less space and less costs.
Kaizen
Kaizen strategy is the single most important concept in Japanese management – the key to successful Japanese companies such as Toyota. Kaizen, which simply means continuous improvement, is the foundation for all Lean production improvements. Kaizen events are opportunities to make focused changes in the workplace.
Kaizen for the Office
Kaizen strategy is the single most important concept in Japanese management – the key to successful Japanese companies such as Toyota. Kaizen, which simply means continuous improvement, is the foundation for all Lean improvements. Kaizen events are opportunities to make focused changes in the office or service environment.
Lean Leadership
Most Lean organizations are missing a critical ingredient: the Lean management system to sustain it. Lean organizations are mostly focused on finding waste and eliminating them using Lean tools.
Lean Thinking
Lean (a.k.a. TPS – Toyota Production System) is an organization-wide continuous improvement initiative that is gaining popularity in the manufacturing, process and service industries today.
Lean Six Sigma Overview
Lean Six Sigma provides a rigorous and structured approach to help organizations improve their performance in meeting their customers’ requirements.
PDCA Problem Solving Technique & Tools
How do you solve business problems that are cross-functional and there is not a single subject matter expert who has sufficient knowledge about the real causes of the problem.
Reducing the Cost of Quality
As a key factor of competitiveness, cost has to be managed all the time, not only in times of economic downturn. The Cost Of Quality (COQ) program fits well into any operational excellence initiative, including Lean, Six Sigma and TQM.
Six Sigma Overview
In today’s competitive environment, organizations must delight their customers and relentlessly look for new ways to exceed their expectations.
PDCA Problem Solving Technique & Tools
How do you solve business problems that are cross-functional and there is not a single subject matter expert who has sufficient knowledge about the real causes of the problem.
Total Quality Management
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a holistic approach to long-term success that views continuous improvement in all aspects of an organization as a process and not as a short-term goal.
Total Quality Process
This workshop is designed to help you, as a key manager, understand how to approach quality as a company-wide effort.
Training Within Industry Programs: JI + JR + JM
Training Within Industry (TWI) programs have a long track record of dramatically boosting productivity and quality and may well be the most successful supervisor training programs ever developed.
TWI Program: Job Instruction Training
The TWI Job Instruction (JI) program teaches supervisors how to quickly train employees to do a job correctly, safely, and conscientiously.
TWI Program: Job Methods Training
The TWI Job Methods (JM) program teaches supervisors how to improve methods for producing greater quantities of quality products in less time by effectively using available workforce, machines and materials.
TWI Program: Job Relations Training
The TWI Job Relations (JR) program teaches supervisors how to evaluate and take proper actions to handle and to prevent people problems.
TWI Program: Job Safety Training
Based on the TWI instructional model, the Job Safety (JS) program creates a simple and logical framework by which supervisors can prevent accidents from happening—by learning how to analyze the causes of accidents and eliminating them before they happen.
Value Stream Mapping
Value stream mapping is a Lean technique used to analyze and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer.
A3 Problem Solving
In this workshop, participants will learn the structured problem-solving approach that uses a tool called the A3 Problem-Solving Report.
5S Techniques
5S techniques for good housekeeping and workplace organization is a set of basic management principles that are widely adopted in industries today.
5S for the Office
In most manufacturing organizations, office and administrative activities constitute about 60 percent of the production costs. However, these areas often get excluded during Lean initiatives.
Staff Suggestion System (Kaizen Teian)
Employees have lots of ideas, but how do you listen to them? How do you harvest their ideas formally and informally, and bubble up the good ones? How do you generate good quality.
Total Productive Maintenance
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), as a Lean Manufacturing methodology, is a company-wide initiative for maximizing the effectiveness of equipment.
8D (Eight Disciplines) Problem Solving Process
In today’s highly competitive environment, there is an increasing awareness that problem solving skill among employees is an important and essential critical skill for company success.
Benchmarking for Superior Performance
Benchmarking is the process of continually searching for the best methods, practices and processes, and either adopting or adapting their good features and implementing them to become the “best of the best.”
Business Process Reengineering
Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes enabled by information technology to achieve dramatic improvements in business performance. BPR may be the answer to organizations who are expecting results over and beyond what continuous improvement techniques can offer. Companies that have successfully reengineered are Ford, Bell Atlantic, Mutual Benefit Insurance and Xerox among others.